Long wait, short push

Yesterday I delivered a first time mom - 7#5oz girl after 14 minutes of pushing! It took her long enough to get to that point, though. She called at 11pm... at 1am I checked her, she was 1cm. 1.5 hours later, 2cm. We moved to the hospital at that point because she didn't want a home birth and it was going to take us at least an hour to get there - we were in the middle of a HUGE snowstorm. It ended up that the highway was closed and we had to take a detour. I was so glad that we ended up traveling in a caravan, because there were a few touch and go moments. When we got to the hospital, she was 4 cm! After 5 hours of active labour she was 7 cm (very good progress!), but then her baby rotated to be facing up and her contractions just quit. The cervix also hung loosely from the baby's head, not well applied at all. Grr. Despite all the position changes, hands/knees, walking, squatting, swaying, lunges, I could think of, the babe wouldn't rotate and she would have a contraction only every 7-8 minutes. With the added back pain she finally got an epidural and then we ran IV oxytocin. I was a bit mad - it was going along so beautifully! I was relieved by my neighbour midwife and took a 2 hour nap, and about an hour after I came back we were seeing early decels on the monitor, and I was hoping against all hope that she was complete... I went to do a vag exam and ran straight into baby's head! +2 station!!! YAY! I went to the desk to get my backup midwife, did a little dance, then went back to the room and 14 minutes later we had a baby! Woohoo!! 1 primip down, 2 still term to go (and one a homebirth!)!